At Tuesday's meeting of the Sterlington Town Council, several announcements were made, corrections to the 2014 and 2015 budgets were discussed and a CPA firm was chosen to do next year's audit report.Before the council went into the items up for discussion, Mayor Vern Breland took a moment to acknowledge the service of outgoing councilman Ron Hill.

A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed two officers in a patrol car and shot them to death in broad daylight Saturday before running to a subway...